Tay.AI was an experimental chatbot designed to engage with social media users. Zoe Vorsino analyzes how the chatbot's gender and race played a significant role in social spaces in the Autumn 2021 issue. Read it here (sub. req.): doi.org/10.1086/715227

I got to enjoy a moment of simple nerd pleasure today, when I was presented with the first need/opportunity to check a book I wanted to buy against my complete LibraryThing library ☺️

This is essentially Massive Resistance. These people are really trying to bring back Massive Resistance. segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/massive…

a lot of academics have never spent any significant amount of time in places where a meal at the olive garden is an event, and it shows.

Acquitted. All fucking charges. Understand what this means.

Racist white people calling Black people racist for condemning their racism is the ultimate display of delusional, cognitively dissonant, arrogant, white privileged, caucacity.

Are you looking for feminist articles for your spring courses? Signs on Syllabus can help with that! We’ve compiled a list of articles for 5 of the most widely taught WGSS courses. signsjournal.org/features/signs…

just a reminder that at a costco near you, you can get plan b for generally the best in-store retail price available. and by law, costco pharmacy cannot deny non-members access! you can buy from the pharmacy online or in-store regardless of whether you’re a costco member or not!

I am so honored that Signs: The Int. Journal of Women’s Studies has chosen to hold a symposium on Against White Feminism where scholars respond to my work.Thank you Kylie Cheung @shoniquaroach jamiaw Benita Roth for your contributions! Cc @HermThompson Link 👇🏽

I say this genuinely and with absolutely no snark: I had no idea Joe Rogan was considered a comedian

so, since some people genuinely don’t understand why immunocompromised and high risk people are freaked out and upset, i’ll explain! 🧵

When I was an undergrad at Harvard, I heard repeatedly — from friends & classmates — that campus therapists would sometimes break patient confidentiality to talk to students’ deans, etc. The goal seemed to be to decide which students to push out on leaves of absence. 1/

One of the key enablers of the rise of right wing populism is liberal elitism- calling people out on not speaking "proper English"or having gaudy stylistic sensibilities, sense of intellectual superiority and exclusionary mentality. And academia is so full of it. It's disgusting.

After a secret search, the UniversitySystemofGA is now expected to name former GA governor & Trump cabinet member Sonny Perdue as the sole finalist for leader of the University system. The AAUP condemns the lack of transparency & politicization of the process.🧵 aaup.org/news/aaup-deno…

There are many reasons to be concerned about Perdue’s qualifications to lead the university system. 1st, Perdue has no absolutely experience in higher education leadership & has a track record of denying science & allowing partisan politics to intrude on scientific research.

Respectfully, after the last two years I think we’re beyond the “is anyone else having trouble concentrating with everything going on” phase and need to be asking why we’re upholding a culture that expects us to carry on business as usual

Is self-confidence culture helpful, or a late capitalist ploy? Co-author's #ShaniOrgad #RosalindGill draw on their 🆕 book #ConfidenceCulture in a feature by Dazed Dazed Beauty: bit.ly/3vBoINz #LSEConfidenceCulture LSE Gender GSRC Duke University Press #euphoria #IWD

.Dr. Mary Anne Franks: “Men’s interests are presumed to stand in for ‘everyone’s’ interests; if women’s interests are thought of at all, it is only belatedly and as a kind of special consideration.” Read in full w/open access: signsjournal.org/feminist-frict…

I did not win an NSF GRFP. I want to share this particular review; I'm not sure what to say about it.

Just heard someone pronounce the “Weber” in Weber Grill like the name of the German sociologist. Time to move, rent’s about to go up.